Actually it looks like it costs more than that to get the specs. Most importantly you have to be a member - "anyone can be a member" - at a cost of $3000 annually.
In the case of M$ potentially owning Intuit, the courts decided (correctly for once) that M$ owning Intuit would create a near or total monopoly in the personal money management software market and denied the merger/acquisition.
Of course, considering they blew out the wall defending Helm's Deep with some kind of explosives, maybe he was calling in an air strike or mortar bombardment.
In the article, it also states that they had just approved a contractor to do a network analysis: "on Oct. 1, hospital officials had approved a consultant's plan to overhaul the network - just not quite in time." If the article summary gives the correct information, I'll bet that large parts of their network were overburdened and hadn't been upgraded in years.
They were probably running at around 30-35% capacity and most networks get REAL funny at around that point. The following comment is rather telling: "The large volume of data the researcher was uploading happened to be the last drop that made the network overflow."
Another telling comment about the situation was: "network function was fading in and out".
I found it rather amusing that one of the quotes from this story says, "...keep an eye out for a background character in The Two Towers who, in the middle of the battle, seems to take a call on his cellphone."
Despite how depraved and despicable the act may be, the effect of making this illegal in the eye of the law would be to eliminate ANY and ALL public cameras.
This would include a camera you might have looking at your front porch showing you who is there. It also would make the theft prevention cameras in many shopping malls, stores, etc. illegal.
The judges acknowledged that no matter how vile the behavior of the juvenile individuals doing this is or was, the law does not specifically prohibit this particular usage of a camera in a public place.
A judge does not MAKE laws, their purpose is to provide interpretation of them.
Basically, the judges said that a PUBLIC place is just that: PUBLIC. You have no implicit expectation of privacy in that context.
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Canceling is VERY easy.
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I actually canceled my service with AOL (which I got (free 45 day trial period) when @home was threatening to cut off broadband access to Cox et al) very easily. I called their sign up number and spent maybe ten minutes on the line waiting. When I talked to the individual about canceling I just told them that I only got AOL as a back up plan to cable access. I also told them that although the experience with AOL was pleasant, that I did not particularly care for the AOL experience, although my sister was very happy with it. They accepted that and very politely canceled my account.
HOWEVER, I have had to brutally cut off a monthly CC biller before when they refused (or made it prohibitively difficult) to cancel my account. I did it by contacting my CC company and telling them that I made several attempts to cancel through normal channels and was unsuccessful. They very politely took care of the issue by denying any further billing requests by that company.:-D
Works great.
And if that didnt work I was prepared to "lose" the credit card and request that that account be canceled and have a new one issued.
The point here I think that should be noted, is that software is like electricity. Do you think that electricity should be free? Do you think that the workers at the local power plant should not be paid for the work they do to provide you with the power to run your computer, keep your house warm, connect to the internet, and make endless moaning comments about how everything should be free? If so then you are sadly mistaken.
Every bit of effort along the way to get the electricity to your door to make your life easier should be rewarded. From the guy who gets up on the pole in freezing rain to restore power to your neighborhood, to the clerk who manages the information necessary to send you your monthly bill. They are the equivalent of the programmer who works endless 80 hour weeks (I am one of those) to the guy who manages the license keying, to the need to pay for the servers and bandwidth necessary to support your gaming habit (whether it be UT or Everquest). Those unspoken heroes at the power company, are as deserving of your hard earned dollars (or pizza and beer money) as the programmers who wrote MS OFFICE or UT. Someone invested the money to enable them to take the time to write these works and they should be compensated for that. You can't tell me that electricity is any more or less tangible than software. Yes, you can see the end results (light, the glow of the monitor through which you are reading this article, you see the physical acoutrements (sp?) of it (cables, light bulbs, the actual monitor from which you are reading this), but physically you cannot handle it except in battery or stored form, same as software. In software, do you actually SEE all of the lines of code (and by the way, LOTS of blood sweat and tears) or just experience the end result?
I'm not trying to defend M$'s pricing policies or activities, but there are a LOT of people who you are depriving of an honest living by STEALING, THIEVING, and MISAPPROPRIATING M$ Office or UT or any other piece of software. (Even a lot of freeware is NOT truly free if you read the licensing info: "Send me a postcard" or "a $5 contribution would be greatly appreciated" is commonly seen in such works.) Just the same as if you had tapped an electric line outside your home to get free electricity. There is absolutely NO difference. NONE, ZERO, ZIPPO, NADA. NONE!
If you cant figure this out, I have pity for you. Obviously you have no regard for other people or their efforts.
"If more of us valued your ways, food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. but, sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell." Thorin Oakenshield to Bilbo Baggins in "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Who says you REALLY have to have an operating PC in the tank. Put already dead components into the tank and "say" that they're really functioning. Then, put the real components somewhere where they really wont get fried by water.:-D
You need to go to a BestBuy/Circuit City/or local camera store then. The size of the digital cameras is Really shrinking. Check out the Canon Digital DV Camcorders (1 7/8 x 4 1/8 x 3 3/8 in (48 x 106 x 86 mm) for example. Some of the new camcorders really are pocket sized. See http://www.unbeatable.com/products/camcorders/Cano n/elura.asp
Ok, this is my first post so hopefully I won't start a flame-war, BUT...
1. While I have an MCSE and the money I earn comes directly from supporting M$ products, I DON'T agree with their predatory market practices.
2. I don't hold with a lot of people's views that one OS or another is the END-ALL-BE-ALL of OSdom. I think (and so do a lot of the people I work with and have worked with) that each OS has it's strengths and weaknesses that place it within a certain market niche. Microsoft fills a LOT of those niches and requirements with it's various OSs.
3. I DO think that, despite Microsofts claims, that they do hold a significant monopoly and do maintain business practices that are unethical at best and market insensitive at worst.
My position is as follows:
1. Microsoft should be broken up.
a) The company should be broken up VERTICALLY into 3 separate companies. A lottery would be held to RANDOMLY assign all current employees to the new derivative companies with a limitation set that NO employee can be cross-hired by any of the other two companies. This would extend from the lowest janitor to Mr. Gates himself.
b) The software assets of the companies should (up to Windows NT and Windows ME) be placed into escrow and if another company wants to be able to compete, they can purchase a licensed copy of the complete source code with the limitation that it is not to be publically disseminated/released.
c) All APIs for any MS derivitave OSs or applications will be PUBLIC. NO HIDDEN or unpublished APIs will be allowed or tolerated from any MS derivative company or licensee.
This, I think would be the ONLY way to truly even the playing field for all competing and also be fair to the shareholders of Microsoft stock. Of which most of you out there probably are if you have a 401(k) or have ANY technology related mutual funds.
Ok, this is my first post so hopefully I won't start a flame-war, BUT...
1. While I have an MCSE and the money I earn comes directly from supporting M$ products, I DON'T agree with their predatory market practices.
2. I don't hold with a lot of people's views that one OS or another is the END-ALL-BE-ALL of OSdom. I think (and so do a lot of the people I work with and have worked with) that each OS has it's strengths and weaknesses that place it within a certain market niche. Microsoft fills a LOT of those niches and requirements with it's various OSs.
3. I DO think that, despite Microsofts claims, that they do hold a significant monopoly and do maintain business practices that are unethical at best and market insensitive at worst.
My position is as follows:
1. Microsoft should be broken up.
a) The company should be broken up
VERTICALLY into 3 separate companies. A
lottery would be held to RANDOMLY assign
all current employees to the new
derivative companies with a limitation
set that NO employee can be cross-hired
by any of the other two companies. This
would extend from the lowest janitor to
Mr. Gates himself.
b) The software assets of the companies
should (up to Windows NT and Windows ME)
be placed into escrow and if another
company wants to be able to compete,
they can purchase a licensed copy of
the complete source code with the
limitation that it is not to be
publically disseminated/released.
c) All APIs for any MS derivitave OSs or
applications will be PUBLIC. NO HIDDEN
or unpublished APIs will be allowed or
tolerated from any MS derivative company
or licensee.
This, I think would be the ONLY way to truly even the playing field for all competing and also be fair to the shareholders of Microsoft stock. Of which most of you out there probably are if you have a 401(k) or have ANY technology related mutual funds.
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Actually it looks like it costs more than that to get the specs. Most importantly you have to be a member - "anyone can be a member" - at a cost of $3000 annually.
Actually I think the most disruptive thing is going to be the telcos themselves. They'll do anything to maintain their precious area based monopolies.
Look at the example of how they behaved and are still behaving with regard to DSL provisioning.
In the case of M$ potentially owning Intuit, the courts decided (correctly for once) that M$ owning Intuit would create a near or total monopoly in the personal money management software market and denied the merger/acquisition.
So does this mean that when I get the latest Britney Spears song (or its equivalent) stuck in my head in Finland I have to pay for that too?
Yes, but do you use very little food or water?
Of course, considering they blew out the wall defending Helm's Deep with some kind of explosives, maybe he was calling in an air strike or mortar bombardment.
In the article, it also states that they had just approved a contractor to do a network analysis: "on Oct. 1, hospital officials had approved a consultant's plan to overhaul the network - just not quite in time." If the article summary gives the correct information, I'll bet that large parts of their network were overburdened and hadn't been upgraded in years.
They were probably running at around 30-35% capacity and most networks get REAL funny at around that point. The following comment is rather telling: "The large volume of data the researcher was uploading happened to be the last drop that made the network overflow."
Another telling comment about the situation was: "network function was fading in and out".
Yeah, according to MIB team member "K" (Tommy Lee Jones) he only went home.
I found it rather amusing that one of the quotes from this story says, "...keep an eye out for a background character in The Two Towers who, in the middle of the battle, seems to take a call on his cellphone."
Despite how depraved and despicable the act may be, the effect of making this illegal in the eye of the law would be to eliminate ANY and ALL public cameras.
This would include a camera you might have looking at your front porch showing you who is there. It also would make the theft prevention cameras in many shopping malls, stores, etc. illegal.
The judges acknowledged that no matter how vile the behavior of the juvenile individuals doing this is or was, the law does not specifically prohibit this particular usage of a camera in a public place.
A judge does not MAKE laws, their purpose is to provide interpretation of them.
Basically, the judges said that a PUBLIC place is just that: PUBLIC. You have no implicit expectation of privacy in that context.
http://www.shop2000 online.com/
I actually canceled my service with AOL (which I got (free 45 day trial period) when @home was threatening to cut off broadband access to Cox et al) very easily. I called their sign up number and spent maybe ten minutes on the line waiting. When I talked to the individual about canceling I just told them that I only got AOL as a back up plan to cable access. I also told them that although the experience with AOL was pleasant, that I did not particularly care for the AOL experience, although my sister was very happy with it. They accepted that and very politely canceled my account.
:-D
HOWEVER, I have had to brutally cut off a monthly CC biller before when they refused (or made it prohibitively difficult) to cancel my account. I did it by contacting my CC company and telling them that I made several attempts to cancel through normal channels and was unsuccessful. They very politely took care of the issue by denying any further billing requests by that company.
Works great.
And if that didnt work I was prepared to "lose" the credit card and request that that account be canceled and have a new one issued.
Web sites are like single-layer nanotubes.
/. editors feel like DDOSing a website they just flash a link to it on the front page. :-P
Whenever the
Way to go guys. You just blew up New Scientist.
The point here I think that should be noted, is that software is like electricity. Do you think that electricity should be free? Do you think that the workers at the local power plant should not be paid for the work they do to provide you with the power to run your computer, keep your house warm, connect to the internet, and make endless moaning comments about how everything should be free? If so then you are sadly mistaken.
Every bit of effort along the way to get the electricity to your door to make your life easier should be rewarded. From the guy who gets up on the pole in freezing rain to restore power to your neighborhood, to the clerk who manages the information necessary to send you your monthly bill. They are the equivalent of the programmer who works endless 80 hour weeks (I am one of those) to the guy who manages the license keying, to the need to pay for the servers and bandwidth necessary to support your gaming habit (whether it be UT or Everquest). Those unspoken heroes at the power company, are as deserving of your hard earned dollars (or pizza and beer money) as the programmers who wrote MS OFFICE or UT. Someone invested the money to enable them to take the time to write these works and they should be compensated for that. You can't tell me that electricity is any more or less tangible than software. Yes, you can see the end results (light, the glow of the monitor through which you are reading this article, you see the physical acoutrements (sp?) of it (cables, light bulbs, the actual monitor from which you are reading this), but physically you cannot handle it except in battery or stored form, same as software. In software, do you actually SEE all of the lines of code (and by the way, LOTS of blood sweat and tears) or just experience the end result?
I'm not trying to defend M$'s pricing policies or activities, but there are a LOT of people who you are depriving of an honest living by STEALING, THIEVING, and MISAPPROPRIATING M$ Office or UT or any other piece of software. (Even a lot of freeware is NOT truly free if you read the licensing info: "Send me a postcard" or "a $5 contribution would be greatly appreciated" is commonly seen in such works.) Just the same as if you had tapped an electric line outside your home to get free electricity. There is absolutely NO difference. NONE, ZERO, ZIPPO, NADA. NONE!
If you cant figure this out, I have pity for you. Obviously you have no regard for other people or their efforts.
"If more of us valued your ways, food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. but, sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell." Thorin Oakenshield to Bilbo Baggins in "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Who says you REALLY have to have an operating PC in the tank. Put already dead components into the tank and "say" that they're really functioning. Then, put the real components somewhere where they really wont get fried by water. :-D
Actually, I beg to differ. This is merely mistranslation humor. not racist. It does not denigrate the Japanese or any other Asian in any way.
You need to go to a BestBuy/Circuit City/or local camera store then. The size of the digital cameras is Really shrinking. Check out the Canon Digital DV Camcorders (1 7 /8 x 4 1 /8 x 3 3 /8 in (48 x 106 x 86 mm) for example. Some of the new camcorders really are pocket sized. See http://www.unbeatable.com/products/camcorders/Cano n/elura.asp
Ok, this is my first post so hopefully I won't start a flame-war, BUT ...
/.ers.
1. While I have an MCSE and the money I earn comes directly from supporting M$ products, I DON'T agree with their predatory market practices.
2. I don't hold with a lot of people's views that one OS or another is the END-ALL-BE-ALL of OSdom. I think (and so do a lot of the people I work with and have worked with) that each OS has it's strengths and weaknesses that place it within a certain market niche. Microsoft fills a LOT of those niches and requirements with it's various OSs.
3. I DO think that, despite Microsofts claims, that they do hold a significant monopoly and do maintain business practices that are unethical at best and market insensitive at worst.
My position is as follows:
1. Microsoft should be broken up.
a) The company should be broken up VERTICALLY into 3 separate companies. A lottery would be held to RANDOMLY assign all current employees to the new derivative companies with a limitation set that NO employee can be cross-hired by any of the other two companies. This would extend from the lowest janitor to Mr. Gates himself.
b) The software assets of the companies should (up to Windows NT and Windows ME) be placed into escrow and if another company wants to be able to compete, they can purchase a licensed copy of the complete source code with the limitation that it is not to be publically disseminated/released.
c) All APIs for any MS derivitave OSs or applications will be PUBLIC. NO HIDDEN or unpublished APIs will be allowed or tolerated from any MS derivative company or licensee.
This, I think would be the ONLY way to truly even the playing field for all competing and also be fair to the shareholders of Microsoft stock. Of which most of you out there probably are if you have a 401(k) or have ANY technology related mutual funds.
Any comments? Over to you
Ok, this is my first post so hopefully I won't start a flame-war, BUT ...
/.ers.
1. While I have an MCSE and the money I earn comes directly from supporting M$ products, I DON'T agree with their predatory market practices.
2. I don't hold with a lot of people's views that one OS or another is the END-ALL-BE-ALL of OSdom. I think (and so do a lot of the people I work with and have worked with) that each OS has it's strengths and weaknesses that place it within a certain market niche. Microsoft fills a LOT of those niches and requirements with it's various OSs.
3. I DO think that, despite Microsofts claims, that they do hold a significant monopoly and do maintain business practices that are unethical at best and market insensitive at worst.
My position is as follows:
1. Microsoft should be broken up.
a) The company should be broken up
VERTICALLY into 3 separate companies. A
lottery would be held to RANDOMLY assign
all current employees to the new
derivative companies with a limitation
set that NO employee can be cross-hired
by any of the other two companies. This
would extend from the lowest janitor to
Mr. Gates himself.
b) The software assets of the companies
should (up to Windows NT and Windows ME)
be placed into escrow and if another
company wants to be able to compete,
they can purchase a licensed copy of
the complete source code with the
limitation that it is not to be
publically disseminated/released.
c) All APIs for any MS derivitave OSs or
applications will be PUBLIC. NO HIDDEN
or unpublished APIs will be allowed or
tolerated from any MS derivative company
or licensee.
This, I think would be the ONLY way to truly even the playing field for all competing and also be fair to the shareholders of Microsoft stock. Of which most of you out there probably are if you have a 401(k) or have ANY technology related mutual funds.
Any comments? Over to you